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Authors on the Air September 30, 2011: Mark Bowden, Stephane Hessel, Alton Brown, Rick Tramonto
Mark Bowden, author of Worm: The First Digital World War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 978-0-8021-1983-4), will be on Fox & Friends.
Stéphane Hessel, author of Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 978-1455509720 ) will be interviewed by Ray Suarez on PBS-TV/Newshour.
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Job Moves: September 30, 2011
Lara Heimert has been promoted to the position of v-p, editorial and publishing director, Basic Books. Heimert joined Basic Books in 2005 and was promoted to editorial director in 2007.
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Rinaldi Leaves Rodale
Karen Rinaldi, who left Bloomsbury Press in March 2008 to head the book division at Rodale, has left the company. Rodale CEO Maria Rodale has named Stephen Perrine acting publisher.
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Authors on the Air September 29, 2011: James Munton, Kate Beaton, Ellen E. Schultz
James Munton, author of The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself (Rowman Littlefield, 978-1442207318) will appear on Good Morning Texas, on WFAA-TV, Channel 8 (http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas).
Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant (Drawn and Quarterly, 978-1770460607), was on NPR's Morning Edition.
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Job Moves: September 29, 2011
Brad Martin has announced that Robert Wheaton, formerly of Indigo Books and Music, will join Random House of Canada overseeing the digital department in the new role of v-p, strategic digital business development.
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Authors on the Air September 28, 2011: Ariel Dorfman, Emeril Lagasse, Bill O'Reilly
Ariel Dorfman, author of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0-547-54946-0), was on MSNBC-TV’s Morning Joe.
Emeril Lagasse, author of Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders (William Morrow Cookbooks, 978-0061742965), was on Good Morning America.
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Obituary: Buz Wyeth, 84
Marion S. Wyeth, Jr, editor at HarperCollins, who edited Old Yeller and With Malice Toward None, among many other titles, died on September 25. He was 84.
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F+W's Kate Rados Wins Marketer of the Year
Kate Rados, group marketing director for F+W has been named Marketer of the Year by min, an industry source on the consumer and b2b magazine business. Min’s Integrated Marketing Awards salute the campaigns, ongoing programs and innovative people who’ve raised the bar on magazine marketing programs.
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Job Moves: September 28, 2011
F+W Media has announced the promotion of Chad Phelps to chief digital officer. Since his appointment with F+W in 2008, Phelps has held a critical role in the creation and growth of the company’s emedia business which today represents more than 15% of its overall revenues.
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Sierra New GM for National Geographic Books
The National Geographic Society has named Hector Sierra general manager and senior v-p of its book publishing group.
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Authors on the Air September 27, 2011: Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Goldie Hawn, Bill O'Reilly
Salman Rushdie will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for their book of the month: Midnight's Children (Random House, 978-0812976533).
Also on The Leonard Lopate Show is Jonathan Franzen, talking about his latest novel Freedom (Picador, 978-0312576462).
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Job Moves: September 27, 2011
Andrea Colvin has been named v-p, content/executive producer, book division, at Andrews McMeel Publishing. Colvin was formerly director of publishing operations at Open Road Integrated Media.
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Betsy Mitchell to Leave Del Rey
Betsy Mitchell, editor-in-chief of Del Rey for the last decade, has chosen to take early retirement and will leave the Random House science fiction and fantasy imprint in December.
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The Monday Interview: Jeanne Adlon
An interview with Jeanne Adlon, whose Cat Calls: Wonderful Stories and Practical Advice from a Veteran Cat Sitter is out this week from Square One Publishers.
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Authors on the Air September 26, 2011: Peter Van Buren, Florence Henderson, Eric Olsen
Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (Metropolitan, 978-0-8050-9436-7), will be interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air.
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Job Moves: September 26, 2011
Pippin Properties has announced the hire of Lauren Weber as agency assistant following her summer internship with the agency. Weber has had a variety of experiences in publishing, from working for a scholarly publishing house to a fashion magazine.
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Authors on the Air September 23, 2011: Florence Henderson, Susan Lucci
Florence Henderson will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for Life is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond (Center Street, 978-1599953885).
Susan Lucci was on NPR's Morning Edition for All My Life: A Memoir (It Books, 978-0062061850).
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Job Moves: September 23, 2011
Ed Park has been hired as an editor, acquiring general fiction, at Amazon Publishing. Park, who was most recently an editor at literary magazine The Believer, has also worked for the The Voice Literary Supplement and wrote the 2008 novel Personal Days.
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Authors on the Air September 22, 2011: Tavis Smiley, Dorothy Roberts, Thomas Friedman, Jennifer Granholm
Tavis Smiley, author of Fail Up: 20 lessons on Building Success from Failure (SmileyBooks, 978-1401933906), will be on The Colbert Report.
Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 978-1595584953), will be on Tavis Smiley.
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Job Moves: September 22, 2011
Kate Gales will join the Simon & Schuster publicity department as a senior publicist on Team 4, reporting to Kelly Welsh.
Steve Geck has joined Sourcebooks as editorial manager for Sourcebooks Jabberwocky! In this new position, Geck will be responsible for acquisitions and the overall direction of growing the children’s imprint.
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